Girl in the wheat field

Ed 2022-01-05 08:02:28

"When I was a child, I thought the whole world was like a huge candy store filled with all kinds of candies, but one day you turned around and saw that it was indeed a prison, and you were at the end of the road. You want to escape, or call for help, or Howling and crying, but I don’t know what has locked you up. Some fools seem to be indifferent. Do they not cry unless they see the official? Or just like you, quietly...planning to escape. "


At the beginning of the film, the 30-year-old Justin expresses her inner feelings in a frustrated accent. As time goes by, she hates everything around her more and more. She hates the day-to-day supermarket work and the mediocrity. Husband, a colleague who hates chicken po, hates ordinary life... and the thing that makes her lose the passion of life most is that no one around her can understand her, she feels lonely, extremely lonely, so she hates and swears more and more. , The more


released the dead... Finally one day, the new cashier from the supermarket caught the attention of Justin, 22-year-old Holden, a little man who was equally cynical, and just like Justin... Lonely...not understood by others. So we saw Justin's eyes suddenly shining with her passion for life again...because she finally saw the same kind, and finally someone could understand her pain, she felt no longer alone... As Justin said, "Living in the dark for so long, a little bit of light can dazzle you." In the end, the two sympathetic confidants developed from a spiritual communication to a physical communication, Justin Derailed.


After the derailment, Justin was very happy. Because of Holden’s appearance, her calm life changed drastically. She was finally able to get rid of everything that she hated in reality and plunged into a beautiful vision of the future, but The good times didn't last long. As a series of events happened, Justin felt more and more that Holden in front of him was not his true kind. He was far crazier than he had imagined, far more unfamiliar and simple than he had imagined, "That At that time I suddenly realized that Holden is only a child at best, or a devil." In the face of waves of childlike enthusiasm of Holden, Justin decided to leave him, sadly, she What I did afterwards not only failed to relieve her, but had a negative effect. In order to be with Justin, the crazy Holden planned to elope, but the elopement was actually robbed from the supermarket and Holden’s own house. Parent's vault....


Finally came to the crossroads of life, Justin sat quietly in the car, closed his eyes and thought about how to make a choice: the



left represents the ordinary life as usual, this is reality...the

right represents the reality. In the illusory future, it may be heaven or hell. This is an illusion...



As for the final choice of Justin...

Some people say that whether it is left or right, it has nothing to do with right or wrong... Everyone’s choices are different...

I totally agree...


Some people say that Justin wants to get rid of the mediocre life cycle, but in the end she has no courage to give up everything, give up what she has, and run towards the uncertainty For the future of...


I am quite a bit remark...



In fact, the final decision is not only the choice between the old life and the new life, but also the choice between husband Phil or Holden. And the biggest criticism I have about Justin’s lack of courage to give up what I currently have is the role of Phil.


In my opinion, the ideal, most sensible and stable state of couples is family members rather than lovers. Couples’ love should be family love rather than couple’s love. The first criterion for choosing a spouse should be whether the two parties are in harmony in life and whether Live together. The love between the two will disappear one day, and soon, but once the family relationship is formed, it will be a lifetime matter. The relationship between Justin and Phil described throughout the film is this kind of ideal family love. Phil is an ordinary painter. The only pleasure after get off work is sitting at home with his buddy Buda. Drinking beer on the sofa and watching TV, honest and honest, no bad habits, not to mention domestic violence, maybe some people will talk about Phil smoking marijuana, but when you actually watch the movie, you will feel that this is really fuss, just like According to the introduction, everything is commonplace, and smoking marijuana is at best an enhanced addiction. Although this leads to Phil’s infertility, what I see in the whole work is Phil’s showing to Justin time and time again. After the warmth and family affection, Phil repaired the TV without a word, and Phil readily agreed to accompany Justin to the couples Bible class. Even after Phil learned of Justin’s derailment, he only beat Jia with regret and chagrin. Siting slapped her, and then she used the handle to ask a little detail like "Your face is swollen", silently forgiving Justin's infidelity. Phil is really mediocre, but he represents pragmatism. He can live with Justin. Even ordinary, though wonderful but unrealistic fantasy, will be stronger.


But, at the beginning, Justin didn’t notice this. She simply thought that after 7 years of marriage with Phil, the two of them had lost their original passion, thinking that she was no longer in Love Phil, and Phil didn’t understand herself. His mood changed, business as usual, and finally came to the conclusion that Phil did not understand himself at all and he was like a pig. Coupled with aversion to everything around him, it leads to a vicious circle until derailment.


But fortunately, this film tells a story about adults. In the end, before the crossroads, Justin carefully recalled all kinds of things about Phil and Holden, suddenly awakened and noticed the greatness of family love. Does Justin have the courage to give up what he currently has? Obviously not. I even think Justin, who had closed his eyes, was thinking about the same question over and over again in his mind: Is Holden worth giving up Phil? Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Finally came to the conclusion:...is absolutely worthless...not Justin dare...

this is the difference...




If Justin chooses Holden in the end, I will not judge who is right and who is wrong...I will only feel sad for one person...that is Phil..




Speaking of which, there must be no Few people sympathize with Holden's ultimate experience, and so do I. After all, this kind of ending is something that none of us want to see, but there is a natural law called survival of the fittest. Throughout the whole film, I feel that the director is deliberately or unintentionally expounding the truth: when you hate everything around you, the first thing to do is not to change others, but to change yourself. Justin did it. She successfully changed herself. What if everything around her hasn’t changed (of course there are still some changes, now she has a child). She still gets a new life, but Holden didn’t. Into destruction, to death.

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  • Allan 2022-04-22 07:01:41

    They ended up at the crossroads. What an irony the title is. It's not enough to have a husband like John who is still holding someone else's child foolishly in the end, right?

  • Zion 2022-04-22 07:01:41

    The film is as dull as the small town life described in the film. As long as two people can understand each other, love can happen regardless of everything. The heroine becomes very selfish in order to maintain a sense of security, and may only make a mistake by briefly escaping from reality. It is easy to despair if you live only thinking about escaping from reality. The relationship between the heroine and her husband I don't know why I can understand, can live but can't love each other.

The Good Girl quotes

  • Justine: Oh, who gives a shit! Who needs a fucken baby anyway, you wanna make your self useful around here, why dont you get that goddamn tv fixed?

    Phil Last: What the hell?

    Justine: It sounds like a helicopter is landing in here!

  • Jack Field, Your Store Manager: Life goes on, and so should we.